Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 348

The Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1999

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"the principal Regulations" means the Council Tax (Demand Notices) (Wales) Regulations 1993[2];

"demand notice" has the same meaning as in the principal Regulations; and

"the relevant year" has the same meaning in relation to a demand notice, as in the principal Regulations.

Transitional provision for the financial year beginning in 1999
     2.  - (1) This regulation applies where the relevant year is the financial year beginning on 1st April 1999.

    (2) Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations shall have effect as if-

(a) after paragraph 6(1) there were added the following sub-paragraphs-

    " (1A) Where the dwelling to which the notice relates is situated in a community area referred to in the Schedule to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme (Wales) Regulations 1999[3], a statement as regards-


(a) the relevant community area, and

(b) the relevant valuation band,



of the amount prescribed in the Schedule to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme (Wales) Regulations 1999.

    (1B) In sub-paragraph (1A) above, "community area" and "the relevant valuation band" have the meanings given in the Council Tax Reduction Scheme (Wales) Regulations 1999"; and

(b) after paragraph 13 there were added the following paragraph-

     " 13A. As regards any case to which regulations made under section 13 of the 1992 Act apply so that the amount required to be paid under the notice is less than it would be apart from those regulations, a statement of the amount of the reduction.".

    (3) Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations shall have effect as if-

(a) after sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 6 there were added the following sub-paragraph-


" (ba) grant under section 88A of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;"and



(b) in paragraph 15(b), after paragraph (iii) there were added the following paragraph-



" (iiia) a person may be liable to pay an amount in respect of council tax which, by virtue of the provisions of the Council Tax Reduction Scheme (Wales) Regulations 1999, is less than the amount it would be apart from those Regulations;".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales


Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

15th February 1999

[2] S.I. 1993/255, amended by S.1. 1995/160, S.I. 1996/310, and S.I. 1998/267.back

[3] S.I. 1999/347.back